A WOMAN who saw a dark-coloured Mercedes driving on the wrong side of the road told her husband: “He’s going to kill someone” shortly before a fatal crash on the Midland Highway.

Sabina van Ingen spotted the car travelling south in a northbound overtaking lane on the highway on March 24 last year.

Tim Ellis, 58, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has pleaded not guilty to negligent driving causing death over a crash on the highway that day in which Launceston woman Natalia Pearn, 27, was killed.

Ms van Ingen told the Hobart Magistrates Court yesterday she was “a few kilometres” north of Lovely Banks when she saw the car travelling on the wrong side of the road.

“It was in the middle of the lane. It didn’t seem to be a long way away,” she said.

“It didn’t register quickly enough for me to flash my lights but I said to my husband: ‘He’s going to kill someone’.”